200r?

[3Wheelers4Life]

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[Old 179]

Team Kaw with Jimmy White and gang started this 2 stroke debore 250 cc to 200cc (83-84) to compete with hondas new 200X. (Still amazed that they allowed 200cc 2&4 stroke compete in same class but a few years ago they allowed 426-450 4 stroke dirt bikes compete in the 250 2 stroke class ??????????) Any way Honda start getting smoked at the races after Kaw had time to work out the kinks. Honda had to ante up to compete with Kaw. They didn't debore the 250 right away. I remember seeing pitures of Team Honda raceing a 200x framed 200 2stroke "MTX" ( I think) engine. Seems like there was some kind of "Honda" Political-Buisness reason for going that route at first. Eventuality they went with a "in house' 200cc engine. All the non factory Honda racers (Honda-kaw-yamaha) used the debore route. The 2 & 4 stroke was finally split to two different class shortly after Honda's 200 factory units hit the tracks.
There was no "production" 200 2 stroke units

Old 179
(Using 20 something year old knowledge, hope it's 100% correct)

Found while flipping through a May 1983 ATV News. At the April 16th Dallas Supercross race at the Cotton Bowl, Ricky Martin (Who had rode yamahas and was from Louisiana like Hart and Wright) was rideing for "Smitty's ACT" on a debore 83-250r. He had the only 2 stroke in the 200 class finishing 2nd behind Gaian and in front of Dunlap.
So team green wasn't the first to "debore" as I stated above, but they were still the ones for the push on "debore" raceing.

Old 179